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Bob Hanlon
In a message dated 2001/4/2 2:36:19 AM, jkawczak at math.uncc.edu writes:
>I am trying to force an output to appeat in a certain way, but without
>much
>success. Here is my problem.
>
>First, how to "teach" M. that some symbols are matrices, vectors, etc...
>and
>that the laws of the real arithmetic do not apply.
>
>Let's take A to be a matrix, and u and v, vectors.
>I would like to have the following:
>
>u A (u - )=u A u -u A
>
>the operator is not symmetric. Whenever I do this oparation I get
>something like
>A u u or A u ^2. I just cannot force the order to be correct!
>
>Also, I would like to have the oparator to
>be iterative, i.e.
>
>v A {(u A (u - ) -<u A (u - )>}
>=v A u A u - v A u A - v A <u A u> + v A u A , and so on.